I say: On one occasion a section of the mosque collapsed, and the people in the marketplace were startled by the crash, yet he was inside the mosque in prayer and did not even turn his head.
His son said: “I saw him in prostration, repeating, ‘When shall I meet You while You are pleased with me?’ Then he would continue supplicating and say again, ‘When shall I meet You while You are pleased with me?’ When he was not in prayer he appeared as though he were in prayer.” His biography has already been presented.
Hanish ibn ʿAmr al-Sanʿānī (1) was governor of Ifriqiyah and the Maghrib. He died in Ifriqiyah while on campaign, and he related many hadiths from a number of Companions.
Khārijah ibn Zayd (2) ibn al-Ḍaḥḥāk al-Anṣārī of Medina was a jurist who issued legal opinions there and was counted among its foremost scholars. He was highly knowledgeable in farāʾiḍ—the laws governing inheritance and the division of estates—and he was one of the Seven Jurists whose views formed the basis for fatwas (3).
[Year 100 AH]
Imam Aḥmad (4) said: ʿAlī ibn Ḥafṣ narrated to us; Warqāʾ related to us, from Manṣūr, from al-Minhāl ibn ʿAmr, from Nuʿaym ibn Dajjājah, who said:
Abū (5) Masʿūd entered upon ʿAlī and asked, “Are you the one who says that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ declared, ‘A hundred years will not pass over the people while a single soul remains on earth’?” He replied, “The Messenger of Allah ﷺ only said, ‘A hundred years will not pass over the people while a single soul remains on earth from among those alive today, and the prosperity of this community will come after the hundred.’” This report is unique to Aḥmad.